The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-11-24

d. monStration to which believe. in God
mercy 1t is committed Aud Yet vou tall
about stopping it here because it has beef
proved that prohibition won't prohibit. |
1t has not had fair trial ought we MOI
to give it a longer trial! Was there evel
city charged with so tremendous prob
lem as this? Whether or not it is better
for men in large cities to live under pro
hibltion; whether it is possible that mer
IN large cities may reap the undeniablt
advantages of the prohibition of the liquor
| traffic! 1t is not too much to say, Ameri
ca waits on the answer Atlanta shall give
to this question. [Applause. 1t is not
too much to say that if we abandon it to-
night, cowardly abandon 1t to night, there
Will not be found an American city brave
enough to take 1t up where we leave off
But If we carry it through two years longer
and demonstrate its success, think of the
harvest that will be reaped by American
cities under American customs, and whose
hearts beat true to American institutions.
know there are cities where it is imprac-
ticable, but thank God Atlanta is not
one of them. Chicago will lack seven
seven heads of being as much that way
after the tenth of this month. Applause
In demonstrating the truth of his second
proposition, Mr. Grady said:
" hOh Sou ~ W SCI tiic tlltCJ Il new
movement for good or evil where do YOU
goa Not to the rich and idle, because you
may swell or diminish their income and
yet not change their habits; you simply
diminish the hidden surplus. Nor to the
middle class, because when you diminish
their income they simply pinch themselves
and pinch so quietly that their neighhors
do not know it; or swell their incomes and
they loosen out a little and pass something
up to surplus You cannot t., II it there.
but go to the poorer classes; the men who
Labor for their daily bread, and whose
wages barely suffice to give it to them
and there you find the first signs of good
or evil movement. 1t is at once the truth
and reproach of our civilization, that
starvation follows so close on labor that
an evil movement is detected IN the hollow
cheeks Of little children aud the haggard
faces of women before it is made manifest
to the higher classes. Let me show you
some facts
Mr.. George Adar rents houses to /. 300
tenants. He states that he has issued in
the last year one distress warrant to where
he issued twenty, two years ago. Ap-
plaUse. | claim to be an intelligent man,
with some courage of conviction, but |
pledge you my word, if that one fact We're
established to my satisfaction, | would
vote for this thing if | never heard anOth-
er word on this subject Have you thought
what that means, a distress warrant? 1t
means eviction; it means the very thing
that is to-day kindiing the heart of this
world for poor Ireland. 1t means evc-
ton. 1t means turning women and little
children out of the home that covers them,
and to which they are entitled. | was
astonished at Col. Adair's statement
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houses, says: Il used to issue two or
three distress warrants-four or fve-a
month. / have not issued a single one in
eighteen months" Applause. Now, both
OF them are prohibitionists. Let me try
you with Harry krouse. He was All anti
prOhihit1onist. He said. MY distress
warrants averaged thirty-six to the year,
and | have not issued one in twelve
months. | said:
Then, my friend, l don't carry your
conscience, but how can you be an anti
prohlbitionist?"
Il amt My knowledge of the thing,
day by day. among people used to poster
and eyIct has changed my convictions, and
| am red hot prohibitionist.
| went down to Mr.. Scott, who did not
vote for prohibition, and asked him He
said: II have issued as many as twenty
L
have issued six in the last eighteen months
and five were to get people out of houses
because they were obnoxious to the neigh
bOrS. | have issued one single distress
warrant for failure to pay rent
said, You didn't vote for prohibition?'
He said, Il did not believe it was prac-
ticable"
l asked ''What do you think now?"
He said, Il am going to vote, and vote
for prohibition. iApplause.
Have you ever thought about a woman
being turned out of her houSe-the little
cottage that covers her and her children.
Can you picture-you who live in com
Portable homes filled with light and warmth
and books and jOy-can you think of
these people-human beings, our broth
ers and sisters the poor mother, brave
though her heart is breaking, huddling
her little children about her-and the
father weak but loving and loving all the
deeper because he knows his weakness,
has brought them to this want and degra-
dation-and little children, those of whom
our Saviour said ''Suffer them to come
unto me and forbid them not" there ask
ing, mamma, where will we sleep to-
mght.' Can you picture that and then
their taking themselves up and the woman
putting her hand with undying love and
faith in the hand of the man she swore to
follow through good and evil report and
marching up and down the street this
pltiable procession-throug the unthink-
ing streets, by laughing children and
shining windows. looking for hole where
like the foxes, they may hide their poor
heads?
Ny friends, they talk to you about per
sonai liberty, that man should have the
right to go into grog shop and see this
pitiful processiOn-now stopped-parad
ing up and down our streets again. They
talk to you about the shades of Washing
ton, Monroe and Jefferson. | would not
give one happy, rosy little woman, up
lifted from that degradation happy again
in her home, with the cricket chirping on
her hearthstone and her children about
her knees, her husband redeemed from
drink at her side-I would not give one of
them for all the shades of all the men that
ever contended since Cataline conspired
and Caesar fought. And yet
old order because it has reduced Governor
-Brown's rental column s., 900 a year.
r applause.
My friends, | don't believe that state
s ent, to begin with. | do not believe his
n ut income is fairly and permanently
}, Ninished So 600 a year-and if it is he
n 10y friend, and l congratulate both him
y a myself on the fact that he is able to
std it. l say this in no spirit of sarcasm
q q iaNf there is a governmental theory, if
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